September – The
Protestant reformer, John Knox has a three-day debate in Maybole,
Ayrshire, Scotland with Quintin Kennedy, commendator of Crossraguel
Abbey, on transubstantiation. The result was inconclusive but
Kennedy was fighting a losing battle against the tide of the
Reformation which had been confirmed by the Scottish government in
1560.

Pensacola, the first European settlement in North
America, and its support fleet are both destroyed by a hurricane.
Two survivors manage to walk the long, arduous journey to Mexico
City. The city is not re-settled until 1698.

Between 1561 and 1670 3,229
witches are executed in southwestern Germany, most by burning.

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